958 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is a constant process of dying.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.

Heiraten heißt das Mögliche t(h)un, einander zum Ekel zu werden.(Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.)

In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that this world's non-existence is just as possible as its existence."―from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Payne. In Two Volumes, Volume II, p. 171

It is really most absurd to wish to turn this scene of misery into a pleasure spot and set ourselves the goal of achieving pleasures and joys instead of freedom from pain, as so many do. Those who, with too gloomy a gaze, regard this world as a kind of hell and, accordingly, are only concerned with procuring a fireproof room in it, are much less mistaken. The fool runs after the pleasures of life and sees himself cheated; the sage avoids evils.

A man cannot serve two masters: so it is either reason or the scriptures.- On Religion

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed